Marten Mickos is the head of the HP Cloud business unit. In this role Marten leads the cloud strategy and oversees development of the HP Helion portfolio of cloud products and services, as well as the company’s involvement in the OpenStack technology and other open source communities.

Mickos joined HP in September 2014. Prior to HP, Mickos was CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, provider of the only AWS-compatible open source cloud computing platform.

Before that as CEO of MySQL AB, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world, ultimately serving as head of Sun Microsystem's Database Group.

Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland.